**Official 2014 MLB Regular Season-All over but the shouting (3 Viewers)

[shadyridr]

If ernesto frieri broke goldys hand im gonna send him gorilla poop in the mail

 

[Long Ball Larry]

Something interesting happened on Wednesday in Houston. The Athletics-Astros game drew a 0.0 rating on CSN Houston, the third time this has happened since the network’s launch nearly two years ago. While this in and of itself isn’t strange, the other side of the equation is – the game wasn’t available at all in Oakland on CSN California, meaning that the two local ratings for the game were 0.0 and N/A.

Maybe everyone knows this, but this seems to be part of the Houston ratings issue: http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-dark-side-of-booming-local-tv-deals/

Comcast SportsNet Houston launched in October 2012 and, since then, has been seen only by Comcast cable customers. The new RSN – a joint venture among the Houston Astros, Houston Rockets and Comcast Sports Group — couldn’t come to agreement on carriage fees with any other cable or satellite company in the region. With the RSN bleeding cash, Comcastforced the venture into bankruptcy court last September, where the parties have been fighting ever since. Astros owner Jim Crane also sued Comcast and former team owner Drayton McLane for fraud in the sale of the team.

 

[Wrigley]

Most runs scored since the all star break?

San Diego

Huh

 

[Long Ball Larry]

Most runs scored since the all star break?

San Diego

Huh

in the NL

they've also somehow scored 3 runs or fewer in half of the games, but had a 3 double-digit games also.

 

[shadyridr]

Most runs scored since the all star break?

San Diego

Huh

well they faced mike minor twice

 

[Raider Nation]

Dodgers pitcher Paul Maholm is expected to miss the rest of the season after tearing the ACL in his right knee in Friday's loss to the Cubs, the team announced on Saturday.

If he continued pitching through the torn ACL, would anyone even notice?

 

[shadyridr]

If ernesto frieri broke goldys hand im gonna send him gorilla poop in the mail

link?

 

[Raider Nation]

WTF happened to Pedroia? Can you chalk it all up to injuries? That mammoth contract he signed last year ain't lookin so team-friendly anymore.

 

[Long Ball Larry]

If ernesto frieri broke goldys hand im gonna send him gorilla poop in the mail

link?

you just asked yourself for a link?

GOldy to DL: http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/eye-on-baseball/24646892/diamondbacks-place-paul-goldschmidt-on-dl-with-fractured-hand

 

[shadyridr]

If ernesto frieri broke goldys hand im gonna send him gorilla poop in the mail

link?

you just asked yourself for a link?

GOldy to DL: http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/eye-on-baseball/24646892/diamondbacks-place-paul-goldschmidt-on-dl-with-fractured-hand

to the gorilla poop site genius

 

[Limp Ditka]

If ernesto frieri broke goldys hand im gonna send him gorilla poop in the mail

I don't give a damn about what Frieri did. This is 100% on that ####### gimpy idiot, Gibson. He needs to shoulder the blame here.There's no reason in the world to have Goldy pinch hitting in that situation.

 

[shadyridr]

If ernesto frieri broke goldys hand im gonna send him gorilla poop in the mail

I don't give a damn about what Frieri did. This is 100% on that ####### gimpy idiot, Gibson. He needs to shoulder the blame here.There's no reason in the world to have Goldy pinch hitting in that situation.

he was double switched into the game with the score 4-4

 

[Limp Ditka]

If ernesto frieri broke goldys hand im gonna send him gorilla poop in the mail

I don't give a damn about what Frieri did. This is 100% on that ####### gimpy idiot, Gibson. He needs to shoulder the blame here.There's no reason in the world to have Goldy pinch hitting in that situation.

he was double switched into the game with the score 4-4

You're right. Knew he had the day off yesterday and assumed he pinch hit. Looking backplane at box score, it makes sense

 

[fred_1_15301]

If ernesto frieri broke goldys hand im gonna send him gorilla poop in the mail

I don't give a damn about what Frieri did. This is 100% on that ####### gimpy idiot, Gibson. He needs to shoulder the blame here.There's no reason in the world to have Goldy pinch hitting in that situation.

he was double switched into the game with the score 4-4

Hope you don't have Cutch on your team because I expect a little retaliation tonight. Godly was a class act about it.

 

[Long Ball Larry]

If ernesto frieri broke goldys hand im gonna send him gorilla poop in the mail

link?

you just asked yourself for a link?

GOldy to DL: http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/eye-on-baseball/24646892/diamondbacks-place-paul-goldschmidt-on-dl-with-fractured-hand

to the gorilla poop site genius

so you did ask yourself for a link? makes total sense.

 

[shadyridr]

If ernesto frieri broke goldys hand im gonna send him gorilla poop in the mail

I don't give a damn about what Frieri did. This is 100% on that ####### gimpy idiot, Gibson. He needs to shoulder the blame here.There's no reason in the world to have Goldy pinch hitting in that situation.

he was double switched into the game with the score 4-4

Hope you don't have Cutch on your team because I expect a little retaliation tonight. Godly was a class act about it.

i do have cutch

 

[JaxBill]

Stanton guns down another Reds runner at second. This time the review was denied. (Actually call was Confirmed)

 

[Encyclopedia Brown]

I just like extra-inning games.

Cubs and Dodgers in LA heading to the 12th.

Vin is about to spin a story about the time Wes Parker and Don Drysdale were on the "Brady Bunch".

 

[Jefferson the Caregiver]

WTF happened to Pedroia? Can you chalk it all up to injuries? That mammoth contract he signed last year ain't lookin so team-friendly anymore.

Not concerned with one sub par year. Would much rather Pedroia and his contract then Ellsbury and his any day.

 

[fred_1_15301]

If ernesto frieri broke goldys hand im gonna send him gorilla poop in the mail

I don't give a damn about what Frieri did. This is 100% on that ####### gimpy idiot, Gibson. He needs to shoulder the blame here.There's no reason in the world to have Goldy pinch hitting in that situation.

he was double switched into the game with the score 4-4

Hope you don't have Cutch on your team because I expect a little retaliation tonight. Godly was a class act about it.

i do have cutch

He got plunked in the 9th inning when the game was out of hand. What a joke.

 

[Balco]

WTF happened to Pedroia? Can you chalk it all up to injuries? That mammoth contract he signed last year ain't lookin so team-friendly anymore.

Not concerned with one sub par year. Would much rather Pedroia and his contract then Ellsbury and his any day.

I don't know, they are both equally bad. But I think pedroias fall will be quicker than ellsburys.

 

[Hilts]

Sure doesn't look as effortless as a Cespedes throw, but impressive work from Fuld throwing out a runner at the plate.

http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/63817564/v35018865/kcoak-fuld-nails-gordon-call-confirmed-in-4th

 

[Good Posting Judge]

Fuld is light-years better than Cespedes in the field, despite not having the latter's cannon.

 

[Good Posting Judge]

Jim Thome signs with the Tribe.

 

[Premier]

It's odd that Fuld has bounced between teams recently. Seems like an ideal 25th man to have. Great in the field, good baserunner.

 

[Doctor Detroit]

Jim Thome signs with the Tribe.

Still a better fielder than Ryan Raburn

 

[Balco]

It's odd that Fuld has bounced between teams recently. Seems like an ideal 25th man to have. Great in the field, good baserunner.

I still think the Twins made out like bandits in that deal. No idea why A's were down on Tommy Millone.

And I agree, Fuld hustles all over the place. Nice glue guy.

 

[Good Posting Judge]

It's odd that Fuld has bounced between teams recently. Seems like an ideal 25th man to have. Great in the field, good baserunner.

I still think the Twins made out like bandits in that deal. No idea why A's were down on Tommy Millone.

And I agree, Fuld hustles all over the place. Nice glue guy.

He's put it together this year in terms of his selectivity at the plate. If that continues, along withhis ++ defending (esp at a corner spot) makes him a really valuable starter, not just an off-the-bench/defensive guy, IMO.

I like the trade of him for Milone, obviously I just wish he'd gotten a longer leash with Oakland the first time around.

 

[Annyong]

So is Goldy basically out for the year? Broken hands are kind of a ##### I would imagine.

 

[Doctor Detroit]

Jose Reyes is broke again, ####.

 

[Doctor Detroit]

Jose Reyes is broke again, ####.

First reports said he was pulled from teh game after hurting his shoulder, but he stayed in the game.

 

[Long Ball Larry]

So is Goldy basically out for the year? Broken hands are kind of a ##### I would imagine.

Sadly, I would think so.

AJ Pollock broke his hand on June 2 and played in his first rehab game on 8/1, so 2 months.

http://www.azcentral.com/story/sports/mlb/diamondbacks/2014/08/02/paul-goldschmidt-has-fractured-left-hand-goes-on-dl/13515449/

The team doesn't have an exact timetable for Goldschmidt's recovery, but it could take awhile. Three Arizona players have suffered similar injuries in the past two years, each needing around two months to return.

 

[Long Ball Larry]

Chase Utley did return in 1 month in 2007, so I guess it depends on the exact injury.

 

[Doctor Detroit]

So Cards/Brewers or O's/M's couldn't have been the Sunday night game? We had to have the Yankees/Red Sux again? Fail

 

[Wrigley]

So Cards/Brewers or O's/M's couldn't have been the Sunday night game? We had to have the Yankees/Red Sux again? Fail

But both teams are in first

 

[shadyridr]

So Cards/Brewers or O's/M's couldn't have been the Sunday night game? We had to have the Yankees/Red Sux again? Fail

they need flex schedule

 

[rodg12]

Jose Reyes is broke again, ####.

He stayed in the game and got a couple more hits. Hopefully he's OK.

 

[Hoos First]

Orioles win 1-0 with a leadoff HR. Only 25th time in history that has happened.

 

[Wrigley]

So Cards/Brewers or O's/M's couldn't have been the Sunday night game? We had to have the Yankees/Red Sux again? Fail

they need flex schedule

They need to stop pandering to the East Coast.

 

[East Coast Bias]

So Cards/Brewers or O's/M's couldn't have been the Sunday night game? We had to have the Yankees/Red Sux again? Fail

they need flex schedule

They need to stop pandering to the East Coast.

Agreed.

 

[shadyridr]

So Cards/Brewers or O's/M's couldn't have been the Sunday night game? We had to have the Yankees/Red Sux again? Fail

they need flex schedule

They need to stop pandering to the East Coast.

Agreed.

lulz

 

[Raider Nation]

ESPN’s near-weekly Yankees-Red Sox Late Sunday Night Game is eager for you to know its announcers, Dan Shulman and John Kruk, will call it from above Fenway’s Green Monster.Why?

Because such innovations, no matter how counter-productive or silly, are deemed innovative, thus easily confused by the easily confused with bold, experimental, “Mr. Watson, come here!” genius.

I’m gonna take a wild guess here to suggest if the vicinity of the Green Monster is the best place from which to call a game — the best spot from which to best serve viewers — that would have been known a long time ago. Fenway, built in 1912, predates TV.

Perhaps it escapes ESPN, but there’s a reason seats just above and behind home plate cost more than those in the bleachers.

Another wild guess: Try as ESPN might, will having Shulman and Kruk call the game from about as far away from the pitcher and catcher as one can be while still inside Fenway, make the difference between you watching and not watching? I’m going with “No.”

Another question: Will Shulman and Kruk’s workplace better provide you a chance to still be awake by, say, the seventh or eighth? Doubtful, but we’ll find out.

Will these distant perspectives help hold the audience if the game’s one-sided? Or will they detract and distract from a good ballgame?

The answer to those questions is ESPN, if it ever considered them, couldn’t care less.

ESPN’s standard regard for the games it televises and the genuine sports fans within its audiences can be scored no higher than my high school algebra final. I scored a “See me.”

If ESPN wanted to add some enhancement by providing visual perspectives from the Green Monster — and you can call me crazy — why not place a TV camera there, as opposed to its broadcast crew?

It’s TV; you don’t have to tell us when you can show us. Besides, most of us have seen that view before.

Why not have ESPN’s guys call a game from a blimp? Perhaps a New Orleans Saints’ home game.

But that’s the difference between silly then, and silly now. Silly used to be accidental; it would cause its purveyors to feel foolish. Now, silly, ridiculous and just plain stupid are a big part of the grand plan.

So don’t miss ESPN on Sunday night, when two East Coast teams play a game West Coasters will have the best shot to watch in its entirety, and when its game announcers will have a better view of the street than the game.

http://nypost.com/2014/08/02/espn-to-call-games-above-fenways-green-monster/

 

[Premier]

They could call the game from the moon and this stupid NFL preseason game is going to ratings-crush it.

 

[Raider Nation]

Erik Boland ‏@eboland11Girardi said Tanaka will meet again with doctor tomorrow. Could possibly play catch if he's given the clearance to do so

Just shut him the #### down. This team never looks at the big picture because there is so much pressure to win in that city. The stars would have to align perfectly for them to make any noise this year. The offense stinks.

 

[East Coast Bias]

Pirates try to turn an double play to send the game to the 11th but the Dbacks player blocks the throw with his hand to end the game.

 

[shadyridr]

If ernesto frieri broke goldys hand im gonna send him gorilla poop in the mail

I don't give a damn about what Frieri did. This is 100% on that ####### gimpy idiot, Gibson. He needs to shoulder the blame here.There's no reason in the world to have Goldy pinch hitting in that situation.

he was double switched into the game with the score 4-4

Hope you don't have Cutch on your team because I expect a little retaliation tonight. Godly was a class act about it.

i do have cutch

ugh kill me now.

 

[Raider Nation]

Clay Buchholz: 5.87 ERA in 2014 (1.74 in '13). No pitcher in MLB history has had ERA triple from one season to next (min. 100 IP)

 

[Limp Ditka]

So Cards/Brewers or O's/M's couldn't have been the Sunday night game? We had to have the Yankees/Red Sux again? Fail

Watching the structural integrity of the green monster meet it's biggest challenge is much more entertaining than those games.

 

[JaxBill]

Pirates try to turn an double play to send the game to the 11th but the Dbacks player blocks the throw with his hand to end the game.

What a joke. I guess the Dbacks won their world series today.

 

[fred_1_15301]

Pirates try to turn an double play to send the game to the 11th but the Dbacks player blocks the throw with his hand to end the game.

What a joke. I guess the Dbacks won their world series today.

Yup that was pretty egregious. No guarantee the Pirates win but that ump handed the game to the Dbacks. Such bs when every game is critical for the pirates